Re: [GZG] Stargrunt II rules questions

[Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Allan Goodall wrote:

> >My vote would be for replacing *all* the SG2 heavy weapons to-hit rules
> >with the corresponding DS mechanics, but the way you phrased your previous
> >questions kinda excluded that option...
>
> Do you mean to use the DS2 mechanics, or the suggested DS3 mechanics? So, 
> should I look at the DS2 mechanics as written, or those found in DS3?

Well, I wrote the DS3 draft because I wasn't fully satisfied with DS2 so of 
course I'd recommend the DS3 to-hit rules to those who have a copy of the 
draft (eg. you, Allan); but I'd take either DS to-hit mechanic over the 
current SG2 heavy weapons to-hit rule. I really *really* don't like the way 
SG2 handles the interaction between heavy weapon ranges and target 
signatures :-(

> If the former, do you recommend using chits or converting it to
> dice (which would be my preference).

For armour penetration once a hit has been scored, you mean? (Above I was 
only talking about the *to-hit* mechanics, ie. how to score the hit in the 
first place.) Just treat all heavy weapons hits against point targets as 
"major hits" and use the SG2 armour penetration rule as written - that's 
essentially what DS3 does already anyway <g>

(OK, it was more a case of converging evolution than a straight borrowing 
from SG2, but the end results are nevertheless very similar.)

> I have no objections to converting the SG heavy weapon mechanics to
> those of DS,

<g> OK. In some of our previous discussions you were a bit more reserved 
about straying too far from the SG2 core :-)

> >As long as the smoke doesn't blow back towards the launching vehicle...
>
> I wonder if there will ever be a way to create smoke that can be
> penetrated by one side but not another. Perhaps some kind of molecule
> that scatters light unless polarized properly, and all a vehicle would
> need to do to polarize the molecules is emit some sort of electrical
> signal.

I'd call such a system a "cloaking field" rather than a "smoke screen" :-/ 
Let's hope that the enemy can't emit the proper polarizing signal though...!

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx

"Life is like a sewer.
 What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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